6 Gertrude Stein Quotes on Acceptance

Gertrude Stein quotes on acceptance

2. One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

30. It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away.

32. No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept... For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.

54. Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.

87. Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today. ~ Ch. 5

112. A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.